On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Sunday, November 9, 2003, 6:29:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I have update perl to 5.8.2 .
> > After that i did find symptomatic insane behaviour of "local" function.
> > Now it returns GMT time.
> Yes, it is wrong here too.
>
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > $perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime ("%a %b %e
> > %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";'
> > Sun Nov 9 15:06:30 2003
>
> > $ date -R
> > Sun, 09 Nov 2003 17:06:33 +0200
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Can someone with perl 5.8.2 on Linux / perl 5.8.2 on Windows (AS & MinGW)
> try if it is wrong there too, please?
It's OK with MinGW. The date is in Chinese, however.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-5.8.2
$ ./perl -e 'use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string = strftime ("%a %b %e
> %H:%M:%S %Y", localtime); print $now_string . "\n";'
¬P´Á¤G [EMAIL PROTECTED]
20:14:44 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-5.8.2
$ date -R
Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:15:02 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/perl-5.8.2
$ ./perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.2 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
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Greg Matheson, Taiwan
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